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Beware the Ides of July 
| | Here's no less than Robert Bork and Kenneth Starr on Microsoft's "victory" in the Court of Appeals: |
| | The government won on the central issue in the case: Microsoft was held to have monopolized the operating-system market in violation of the Sherman Act. |
| | On no count, moreover, was Microsoft's behavior found lawful. The charge of attempted monopolization of the browser market failed only because the government did not offer readily available evidence that browsers constituted a relevant market and that barriers to entry existed. Microsoft won not because it was innocent but because the government did not carry its burden. |
| | Much the same is true of the court's reversal and remand for trial on the issue of whether Microsoft's bolting of its operating system and browser into a single package was an illegal tying arrangement. Noting that the integration of products often benefits consumers, the court rejected a rule of per se illegality and remanded for trial under the rule of reason. The government will have to prove that the anticompetitive effect in the browser market outweighs any enhanced efficiency. Since Microsoft has never been able to articulate a plausible efficiency from the bolting, the government seems likely to prevail. |
Taking redirection
| | I'm not a software jock (to float a huge understatement). But I do know which way the wind blows. Reading Dave and Craig, my take-away is this redirection business. |
| | The irony is, it seems to be about both interop and hijacking market-cornering software strategies like .Net. Guess I need to learn about it. |
Vetting a verity
| | In the midst of transcribing an interview, this occurs to me: |
| | If somebody says "That's a good question," it's because they don't have a good answer. |
Business 0.2
| | [Time passes...] Now I'm told I was wrong. Its here. mea bozo |
| | I still hate what B2 is up (or down) to on its Web site. |
I'll still drink to it
| | The real joke here is that I wasted a bunch of time today running down this "story." |
But it's still serving cookies
| | Webvan has stopped trucking, and its Web site has about as much information as the average headstone. |
All that and it eats shit too
| | RageBoy points to an item about which we might all agree. |
A promise fulfilled
The Adventures of RageBoy and BadMan
| | Reading the latest, I couldn't tell. I suspected it was Norlin, who indeed signed the piece as American Bad Ass. But I suspected the prior piece, which was titled American Bad Ass and concerned itself with the voice of integrity and the created persona, had been written by Locke, until I got to the signature. |
| | Rather than screw around looking for something deep and ironic there, let's mine a more useful vein and imagine a noir business future rather like the one in Bladerunner, in which de-marketing professionals like RageBoy and BadMan are called upon by The Authorities (on behalf of us all, for the public good and all that), to hunt down and and "retire" replicant companies that fake human form but lack actual humanity. |
| | Maybe it's not a fantasy at all. Things are getting a little noir around here, no? So ask yourself: Does a replicant company write my paycheck? Do I write like a replicant? Am I willing to be a bladerunner? |
| | It ain't that hard. Just be yourself. If your employer treats you like a cancer, it's a replicant. You know what to do. |
Cooking with song
| | On the matter of setting highly selective cookie preferences, there seems to be a consensus among readers that Opera is the way to go. Unfortunately my main ax is a Mac. But yours probably isn't, so there is good news here. Maybe you can break your IE dependency. If you're a Mac user, stay tuned. |
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